of the fruits of that restrictive policy which we are beginning to relinquish. Not long since, Parliament repealed the restriction on the export of machinery : France now...

project of factory-labour has not been adequately reflected out of doors. A deputation of working people in alliance with Lord ASHLEY, and a deputation of millowners, are in...

BEFORE any one was aware of it, there was something like a Minis- terial crisis, all about the Factory Bill ; for mutual exasperations, and the efforts of interested bystanders...

THE FACTORY BILL. Some allusion bavirg hen made in the subsequent discussion to Mr. CHARLES BULLER'S speech of Friday last in support of Lord Ash- ley's amendment, w we return...

The weekly meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League was held as usual at Covent Garden Theatre, on Wednesday. Mr. Milner Gibson was Chairman for the evening ; and the speakers were...

AFTER various contradictory rumours, Prince Albert has actually set out on a visit to his relatives in Germany ; some Court ceremonies having been hastened on account of his...

The nomination of Parliamentary candidates for the representation of Hastings, in the room of Mr. Planta, who has resigned, took place on Thursday. There was quite a "...

Notwithstanding the positive contradiction of the Standard, the Dublin Evening Mail reiterates its statement that Sir Robert Peel has intimated, by letter to the Irish...

FRANCE.—In the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday, the Minister of Finance introduced a bill comprising some important modifications of the tariff. One provision, to raise the duty...

Two offices left vacant by the death of the Earl of Lonsdale occasion some embarrassing competition. The Lonsdale estates are situate in both the counties of Westmoreland and...

MR. BURFORD has filled the largest circle of his Panorama in Leicester Square with a View of the Island and Bay of Hong-kong; which, as the newly-acquired British territory in...

Infanta, near Aranjuez, on the 21st; a scene described as very affect- ing. The Queen-Mother afterwards received the welcome of divers diplomatic gentlemen, including Mr. Henry...

grows more formidable daily. At one of the meetings, in Newry, on Tuesday, a Reverend Mr. White remarked that the adverse decision rested upon a musty Saxon document a thousand...

John Macaulay Higginson to be Civil Secretary to the Governor-Ge- neral of Canada.

long been the subject of investigation at the Mansionhouse—Barber, Fletcher, Griffin, Sanders, Mrs. Sanders, and Mrs. Dorey—were brought up today for final examination ; and...

Company was held yesterday, and was again adjourned, for reasons stated in the subjoined report. From the tone of the document, it does not appear that any real progress has...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The marneuvre of changing the old for a new version of the Factory Bill was not effected by Government, in the House of Commons last night, without some...

for Westminster, and Mr. James Coppock, Whig election-agent, in the . Morning Herald, we perceive that Mr. Leader was announced as a Steward for the late O'Connell dinner...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The business transacted in the English Funds has been of an unimportant character. The Government-broker has continued his purchases for the...

Bank of England, from the 30th December 1843 to the 23d March 1844. LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation £21,122,000 Securities. £22,479,000 Deposits 13,972,000 Bullion...

La Cenerentola, which was revived at the Italian Operahonse on Satur- day, and repeated on Tuesday, has introduced in the person of its hero- ine a new candidate for public...

forte : and it is no more than justice to her power of expressing strong emotion, to assign her precedence in this respect over every actress that has yet appeared at the St....

nights when he performed the part of Ferdinand, in DONIZETTIs opera of The Favorite, as originally written for him by that composer. The house was crammed to suffocation : a...

aaatezn. — At Gravesend, 25th instant, Viscount Saudon, Lancaster, from China; 27th. Isateffu Wood, Dunn ; and Ag■ra, Reed, from Ceylon; Cowslip. College; and Dickey Sam....

FIRST CONCERT—MONDAY, MARCH 25. Sinfonia in P. No.8 BEETHOVEN. Air. " Pro peecatis." Mr. H. Pen.r.rea (Stabat Mater) .... Rossier. CODCOTIO, Harp. MS. Mr. PARISH ALVARS P....

A SECOND INSPECTION OF MR. SENIOR'S GOLDEN TOOTH. OUR critical examination of " Mr. SENIOR'S golden tooth" has drawn upon us an angry shout from some persons, who dislike re-...

SEVERAL orators in the House of Commons have taken the trouble to inquire whether or not Lord AsatEy's motion deserved the very original epithet of Jack Cade legislation," which...

PUBLIC opinion is the scapegoat of indolent or timid statesmen. When the Duke of WELLINGTON called county meetings " farces," he said what is rather shocking, but not very...

THE season has returned in which suburban citizens trim their gardens, and the members of the great and gay world their city mansions. The former have their own enjoyment in...

[In printing the lists of the three principal divisions on the Factory Bill, we group together the lists of votes for Ministers on the one side and of votes for Lord Ashley on...

Norton, Gaston De Fan ; a Romance of the Sisteeuth Century. In three volumes. Mortimer. The Forester's Daughter ; a Tale of the Reformation. By the Authoress of Sey- mour of...

Tars book is intended as a continuation or sequel to HAZLITT's Spirit of the Age ; but it has little resemblance to that racy and characteristic work, beyond the formal...

IT is a common enough notion, that the interest on "the twenty millions" is the extent of the sacrifice paid by the British people to abolish slavery in the West Indies; the...

From March 22d to March 28th. Books. Gaston de Foix ; a Romance of the Sixteenth Century. In three volumes. The Forester's Daughter; a Tale of the Reformation. By the Author...

THE author, in a temperate and manly spirit, appeals against our brief criticism of his work on some points, and offers a candid apology for his imperfections. TO THE EDITOR OP...

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. THIS Society is notorious for having the worst exhibition of modern pictures in London ; and it maintains its bad eminence this year. The present...

1st Begt. Life Guards- Cornet and Sub-Lieut. IL Sutton to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Clifton. who retires; G. Viscount Dupplin to be Cornet aud Sub. Lieut. by pu4 chase, vice...

BIRTHS. On the 15th March, at the Rectory, West Kington, the Wife of the Rev. Eo. RAVEN- SHAW, of' a daughter. On the 16th. at Clifton Grove. York, the Wife of Captain...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. and J. E. Brodhurst, Newark-uponTrent, merchauta-Hndsou and Hartley, Bradford, worsted spinners-F. and H. E. Drayson, Fecersham, civil engineers-...

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